In this series, I have collected comic strips that reveal, whether intentionally or unintentionally, something interesting about how our culture views mathematics and mathematics learning.

Here are the entries thus far:

1 – a Foxtrot comic on solving equations. For some learners, the formal language of mathematics gets in the way of the mathematical ideas themselves. Paige can do the thinking, as long as it doesn’t look like math.

2 – another Foxtrot comic, this one with the two geeks. Eating nachos, for them, recalls the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonachos.

3 – a One Big Happy comic, in which we look at math learning the way a linguist might look at language learning.

4 – an Arlo and Janis comic, we look at an effect of over-quantifying something.